If this is your first visit, you may have to register
before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages,
select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below.

Re: Pentax K20D + 10-17mm fisheye Pentax settings

Hi,
Unfortunately we don&#039;t have the settings for this lens - it would be great if some out there did.
As we hear back from customers and learn settings we post the findings here on a temp page: http://www.nodalninja.com/html/settings.html
The manual also teaches you how to find these settings: http://nodalninja.com/nodal_ninja_user_manual.html.
I can tell you the lower "A" setting once found will never change.
It really is easy to learn how to find the no parallax point of a lens and we really encourage our customers to learn this. Once learned it will work for any camera/lens at any focal length.
Also here is another link that you might find helpful:http://www.johnhpanos.com/epcalib.htm
After you do finally learn the settings I hope you might share them with us so we can post them on the website.
Hope this helps.
thx
Bill

This data comes from Klaus Meyer Australia. I also read, that the lower rail settings for the Pentax K10D and K20D should be the same.

Hope this helps you a little bit and you can start to use your nn to take your photos. I had a manfrotto panohead before and i only can tell you, this is a new life with the Nodal Ninja 5. I was so eager to get it in last December, that i missed the new RD16 rotator. But the RD12 is brilliant too.

Re: Pentax K20D + 10-17mm fisheye Pentax settings

Hi Heinz,
Thanks for that. 89.9mm seems pretty exacting given the rails are in 1mm increments.
I see the K10 is same size as K20 - that said the settings may be skewed either from user or website :-(
I should touch bases with Klaus on this.
thx
Bill

Re: Pentax K20D + 10-17mm fisheye Pentax settings

I was about to give you my settings for the K20D and 10-17 @10mm, but when the numbers were so out of whack I remembered that I have a Manfrotto RC2 quick-release system on the head, which alters both settings. My manual has "Upper = 96.5, Lower = 57" scribbled on it, so that must be what I came up with... but even that seems whacked.

However, I *can* say that the settings for the K10D and Pentax 10-17mm settings here: http://www.nodalninja.com/html/other_settings.html are not correct, as I spent a few days adjusting and tweaking until I got around to setting up the "big wire mesh and nearby pole" parallax test. The bodies are identical, and the lens hasn&#039;t changed, but those numbers did not correspond (obviously) for me.

Sorry for taking 3 years to come across this post. Just in case anybody is trying to setup the K10D with Pentax DC 10-17mm on a NN3, my figures posted on panoguide were not correct. As far as I recall I only figured this out after applying a lot of scrutiny to get the settings to perfection.

This data comes from Klaus Meyer Australia. I also read, that the lower rail settings for the Pentax K10D and K20D should be the same.

Hope this helps you a little bit and you can start to use your nn to take your photos. I had a manfrotto panohead before and i only can tell you, this is a new life with the Nodal Ninja 5. I was so eager to get it in last December, that i missed the new RD16 rotator. But the RD12 is brilliant too.

Sorry for taking 3 years to come across this post. Just in case anybody is trying to setup the K10D with Pentax DC 10-17mm on a NN3, my figures posted on panoguide were not correct. As far as I recall I only figured this out after applying a lot of scrutiny to get the settings to perfection.